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Annie Jump Cannon
Creating a simple system to classify stars that astronomers still use today
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Discovering what stars are made of
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Discovering a rule about special stars that helped scientists measure distances in space and understand the size of the universe.
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Vera Rubin
Discovering strong evidence for dark matter by studying how galaxies spin